Schattenspiel in Mysore und Andhra Pradés

Endemic Typhus in Mysore

Hans Zinsser's book Rats, Lice and History has depicted impressively the important role typhus in the cultural evolution of the human race. The epidemic form of the disease has even changed the history of nations. ^ certain uniformity in the symptomatology has pen established in the louse-borne epidemic j;0rm as a contrast to the numerous endemic forms. The manifestation of the tsutsugamushi ;^...

Mysore childhood obesity study.

We conducted this study to document the prevalence of obesity, overweight and underweight in the school children aged 5 to 16 years from Mysore. 5 Principal Investigators and 13 Co-Investigators trained the teachers of 139 schools (Private--111, Govt--28) to record the vital statistics of the children studying in their schools. A total of 43,152 school children (23,527 boys and 19,625 girls) we...

Mysore Declaration: capacity strengthening in nutrition.

Further Experiences on Endemic Typhus in Mysore

Geographically.?Ten cases from Mysore City, four (cases 2, 3, 12, 13) from different large villages, situated at a distance of up to 40 miles from Mysore, within the city three patients (cases 5, 6, 7) who lived in two opposite houses and fell ill within one and the same week; in cases 1 and 10 and 11 and 14, respectively, the patients lived close to each other but each of these couples lived i...

Scheduled Castes in Andhra Pradesh

History tells us that Scheduled Castes have no history of their own. They have been marginalised as objects of the state rather than being treated as the subjects. 1 They are treated as targets of philanthropic and social work rather than citizens of a nation who have equal rights as other citizen to all the benefits that are given to them as worthy citizens. Instead, they have been pushed arou...